En qua aantallen:

In 2024 totale immigratie naar Nederland 316K waarvan 32K asielzoekers. Asielzoekers vormen dus slechts 10% van het totale aantal, asielzoekers droegen maar 0,18% bij aan de bevolkingsgroei.

200.000 mensen emigreerden: netto-immigratie slechts 116K

Well said. That is exactly how it works. I have always said there are lots of inherently evil people in all societies. As soon as a government appears to be sanctioning evil these people crawl out of the woodwork.

Because it never is. The majority of managers are managers by default, and absolute wastes of space (pun unintended).

En daarom zijn referenda niet toegestaan in Duitsland.

SUVs are ridiculous monstrosities.

Never mind the fact that he’s a racist piece of shit - he started a sentence with ‘And’!

South Ozone Park sounds as though it is asking for it!

George Harrison played a major part in Ringo’s career in that era, composing, producing and playing.

My dad bought the same car with the same colours in 1969. MKU 9G.

It’s a sad state of affairs when you consider that Apollo 8 did the same thing in 19 sixty fucking 8. Imagine the progress that could have been made if Apollo had been built upon as it should have been.

Excellent. She’s a nasty Nazi.

As if was reading lines of text on a page.

Ja, maar de kernwapens zijn ook een factor

I sometimes like to say that all the “methodologies” we’ve seen down the years are attempts to manage mediocrity.

I have been a software engineer for nearly 40 years. I know I’m very good at it (sorry don’t mean to be immodest!). I realised early on, and still feel now, that it’s more of an art form than anything else. Good architecture is essential and is also an art form, imho.

Musk is himself an immigrant.